In this paper, several works have been presented related to clustering parallel computing for
distributed systems. The trend of the paper is to focus on the strengths of previous works in …

The popularity of research on the scheduling of parallel jobs demands a periodic review of
the status of the field. Indeed, several surveys have been written on this topic in the context …

Design patterns facilitate reuse of good design practices. They are typically given by using
conventional notations that lack well-defined semantics and, therefore reasoning about their …

Recent advances in software and architectural support for server virtualization have created
interest in using this technology in the design of consolidated hosting platforms. Since …

Conventional gang scheduling has the disadvantage that when processes perform I/O or
blocking communication, their processors remain idle because alternative processes cannot …

The question of whether more accurate requested runtimes can significantly improve
production parallel system performance has previously been studied for the FCFS-backfill …

As we continue to evolve into large-scale parallel systems, many of them employing
hundreds of computing engines to take on mission-critical roles, it is crucial to design those …

Job runtime estimates provided by users are widely acknowledged to be overestimated and
runtime overestimation can greatly degrade job scheduling performance. Previous studies …

The virtualization technology makes it feasible that multiple guest operating systems run on
a single physical machine. It is the virtual machine monitor that dynamically maps the virtual …

In most parallel supercomputers, submitting a job for execution involves specifying (i) how
many processors are to be allocated to the job, and (ii) for how long these processors are to …